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The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of , The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India has a rating of 3 stars
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The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of , The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
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  • The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
  • Written by author Martine Van Woerken
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, November 2002
  • British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of
  • British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of
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Introduction1
Pt. IBritish India and Crime: The Thugs between Myth and Reality
1Colonizers and Bandits13
2The Anti-Thug Campaign43
3Who Were the Thugs?109
Pt. IIThe Colonizers between Science and the Imaginary
4William Sleeman and Meadows Taylor: Parallel Biographies189
5William Sleeman and Thug Science201
6Meadows Taylor's Imaginary Discourse235
7Later Thug Adventures261
Conclusion287
Thug Lexicon or Ramasee295
Notes317
References331
Index345


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